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A Garbageman's Story

by Simon Paré-Poupart ...

Narrated by Jean Brassard ...

Unabridged

3 hours 10 min

A Montreal garbageman’s sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to “stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears”This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started ... Read more

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A Montreal garbageman’s sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to “stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears”This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started
... Read more
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The Devil in the White City

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Unabridged

15 hours

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth ... Read more

$25.00 USD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth
... Read more
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Life After Cars

Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, Aaron Naparstek ...

Narrated by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon ...

Unabridged

7 hours 37 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything—and what we can do to fight back**When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were a technological marvel, predicted to make life easier and better for all Americans; yet a hundred years later, that dream is running on empty.Instead of unbounded freedom, the never-ending ... Read more

$20.00 USD

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything—and what we can do to fight back**When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were a technological marvel, predicted to make life easier and better for all Americans; yet a hundred years later, that dream is running on empty.Instead of unbounded freedom, the never-ending
... Read more
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Abolish Rent

How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

by Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis ...

Narrated by Sharp Radway ...

Unabridged

5 hours 39 min

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing
... Read more
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Earthopolis

A Biography of Our Urban Planet

by Carl H. Nightingale ...

Narrated by Jennifer Woodward ...

Unabridged

32 hours 9 min

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennium tour of the world’s cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms of action, habitat, and impact, courting dangerous new ... Read more

$20.00 USD

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennium tour of the world’s cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms of action, habitat, and impact, courting dangerous new
... Read more
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Transforming Public Safety

Guiding the CVI Frontlines

by DeVone Boggan ...

Narrated by Anthony S. Goolsby ...

Unabridged

2 hours 48 min

A frontline guide. A field-tested philosophy. A bold call to protect what works.Transforming Public Safety is the first compact and accessible field guide written for the people doing the work of Community Violence Intervention (CVI)—those closest to the pain and promise of change. Designed in the spirit of a hands-on manual, this book equips outreach workers, violence interrupters, credible ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A frontline guide. A field-tested philosophy. A bold call to protect what works.Transforming Public Safety is the first compact and accessible field guide written for the people doing the work of Community Violence Intervention (CVI)—those closest to the pain and promise of change. Designed in the spirit of a hands-on manual, this book equips outreach workers, violence interrupters, credible
... Read more
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The Mayor

One Poor City’s Fight to Bring Back Government and Save the Nation’s Soul

by Brian Alexander ...

Narrated by William DeMeritt ...

Unabridged

10 hours 48 min

The author of The Hospital asks: Can one challenged city show the way to restore faith in government and reimagine the nation’s future?Chester, PA, a majority Black city just south of Philadelphia, is plagued by gun violence, decrepit infrastructure, a hospital at risk of closing, and a scary reputation. After more than a century of mismanagement, people have lost all faith in government.Stefan ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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The author of The Hospital asks: Can one challenged city show the way to restore faith in government and reimagine the nation’s future?Chester, PA, a majority Black city just south of Philadelphia, is plagued by gun violence, decrepit infrastructure, a hospital at risk of closing, and a scary reputation. After more than a century of mismanagement, people have lost all faith in government.Stefan
... Read more
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Hello (And Goodbye) To All That

A Memoir of a Changing New York in the 21st Century

by Jonathan Liebson ...

Narrated by Andrew Gibson ...

Unabridged

6 hours 39 min

Raised in suburban Chicago, Jonathan Liebson grew up hearing fabled stories about his father's childhood in New York. The Manhattan and Queens of his father's past, and the Lower East Side of his immigrant grandfather, always shimmered in the background—until one day Jonathan finally moved there himself. This was right on the cusp of the twenty-first century: the dawn of a new millennium. The city ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Raised in suburban Chicago, Jonathan Liebson grew up hearing fabled stories about his father's childhood in New York. The Manhattan and Queens of his father's past, and the Lower East Side of his immigrant grandfather, always shimmered in the background—until one day Jonathan finally moved there himself. This was right on the cusp of the twenty-first century: the dawn of a new millennium. The city
... Read more
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Torn Apart

How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

by Dorothy Roberts ...

Narrated by Dorothy Roberts, Janina Edwards ...

Unabridged

11 hours 49 min

An award-winning scholar and author of Killing the Black Body exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system“A brilliant and impassioned call for abolition.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowMany believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, ... Read more

$27.99 USD

An award-winning scholar and author of Killing the Black Body exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system“A brilliant and impassioned call for abolition.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowMany believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research,
... Read more
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Prophetic City

Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America

by Stephen L. Klineberg ...

Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents “a trailblazing study” (Kirkus Reviews) that shows how the city of Houston has emerged as a microcosm for America’s future—based on a meticulously researched, thirty-eight-year study of its changing economic, demographic, and cultural landscapes.Houston, Texas, long thought of as a traditionally blue-collar black/white Southern city, has transformed into one ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents “a trailblazing study” (Kirkus Reviews) that shows how the city of Houston has emerged as a microcosm for America’s future—based on a meticulously researched, thirty-eight-year study of its changing economic, demographic, and cultural landscapes.Houston, Texas, long thought of as a traditionally blue-collar black/white Southern city, has transformed into one
... Read more
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From Me to We

Building Stronger Communities Through Collaboration

by Jude Hawthorne ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Anya G ...

Unabridged

1 hour

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In "From Me to We: Building Stronger Communities Through Collaboration," Jude Hawthorne explores the transformative power of community collaboration. This inspiring book reveals how collective efforts can bring about positive change, addressing local challenges and fostering a sense of unity. Through engaging stories and practical examples, Hawthorne ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In "From Me to We: Building Stronger Communities Through Collaboration," Jude Hawthorne explores the transformative power of community collaboration. This inspiring book reveals how collective efforts can bring about positive change, addressing local challenges and fostering a sense of unity. Through engaging stories and practical examples, Hawthorne
... Read more
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The Death Gap

How Inequality Kills

by David A. Ansell ...

Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

Unabridged

7 hours 21 min

The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans.David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of ... Read more

$16.99 USD

The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans.David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of
... Read more
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What Could Go Right

by Justin Bean ...

Narrated by Dylan Wheeler ...

Unabridged

8 hours 22 min

WINNER: Nautilus Awards and Book Excellence Awards (Sustainability)Amazon BestsellerTired of all the doom and gloom? What Could Go Right invites you to ditch cynicism about the future, and build the one you want.Instead of worst-case scenarios or Pollyanna optimism, you can envision an ideal world and be empowered to build it. The opportunity of our era is to transition to a sustainable, equitable ... Read more

$14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

WINNER: Nautilus Awards and Book Excellence Awards (Sustainability)Amazon BestsellerTired of all the doom and gloom? What Could Go Right invites you to ditch cynicism about the future, and build the one you want.Instead of worst-case scenarios or Pollyanna optimism, you can envision an ideal world and be empowered to build it. The opportunity of our era is to transition to a sustainable, equitable
... Read more
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Man in the Mirror

Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City

by Anand Giridharadas ...

Narrated by Anand Giridharadas ...

Unabridged

15 hours

**From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation“A tour de force of sharp-eyed reporting, powerful narrative, and heartbreaking tragedy. . . . Brilliant and spellbinding.”—Robert B. Reich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Coming Up Short**In 2023, New York ... Read more

$27.00 USD

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**From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation“A tour de force of sharp-eyed reporting, powerful narrative, and heartbreaking tragedy. . . . Brilliant and spellbinding.”—Robert B. Reich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Coming Up Short**In 2023, New York
... Read more
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Gay New York

Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

by George Chauncey ...

Narrated by Graham Halstead ...

Unabridged

18 hours 40 min

The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th centuryGay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were isolated, invisible, and ashamed. Based on years of research in diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and police reports, George Chauncey describes the ... Read more

$38.99 USD

The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th centuryGay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were isolated, invisible, and ashamed. Based on years of research in diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and police reports, George Chauncey describes the
... Read more
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Capital

The Eruption of Delhi

by Rana Dasgupta ...

Narrated by Dana Hickox ...

Unabridged

15 hours 58 min

In Capital, Commonwealth Prize–winning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time: the expansion of the global elite. Capital is an intimate portrait of the city of Delhi which bears witness to the extraordinary transmogrification of India’s capital. But it also offers a glimpse of what capitalism will become in the coming, post-Western world. The story of Delhi is a parable ... Read more

$39.98 USD

In Capital, Commonwealth Prize–winning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time: the expansion of the global elite. Capital is an intimate portrait of the city of Delhi which bears witness to the extraordinary transmogrification of India’s capital. But it also offers a glimpse of what capitalism will become in the coming, post-Western world. The story of Delhi is a parable
... Read more
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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy

A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City

by Brandon Harris ...

Narrated by Brandon Massey ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City—a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with ""the serious, life-threatening process"" of gentrification.Making Rent in Bed-Stuy explores the history and ... Read more

$25.99 USD

A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City—a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with ""the serious, life-threatening process"" of gentrification.Making Rent in Bed-Stuy explores the history and
... Read more
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Dead Cities

by Mike Davis ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

12 hours 30 min

For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital—and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises—was always a central part of his urban geography.In these wide ranging, incisive, and hauntingly relevant essays, Davis asks us to consider what we would find if we put a microscope to the ruins of Metropolis, and provides a ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital—and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises—was always a central part of his urban geography.In these wide ranging, incisive, and hauntingly relevant essays, Davis asks us to consider what we would find if we put a microscope to the ruins of Metropolis, and provides a
... Read more
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Rebound

Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City

by Perry King ...

Narrated by K.C. Collins ...

Unabridged

5 hours 51 min

From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion.“The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie of pick-up basketball in their local community centre or ... Read more

$22.99 USD

From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion.“The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie of pick-up basketball in their local community centre or
... Read more
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Everything Now

Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

by Rosecrans Baldwin ...

Narrated by Rosecrans Baldwin ...

Unabridged

7 hours 40 min

America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point of America's western drive. (It has its own compass.) Functionally, aesthetically, mythologically, even technologically, an independent territory, ... Read more

$19.99 USD

America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point of America's western drive. (It has its own compass.) Functionally, aesthetically, mythologically, even technologically, an independent territory,
... Read more
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Van wie is de stad

de strijd om Amsterdam

by Floor Milikowski ...

Narrated by Jelle Amersfoort ...

Unabridged

7 hours 7 min

Een meeslepend portret van Amsterdam aan het begin van de 21ste eeuw. De bevolking groeit snel, het aantal toeristen neemt toe en de stad raakt in de greep van vastgoedhandelaren en beleggers uit binnen- en buitenland. In de binnenstad worden bakkers en boekhandels vervangen door ijswinkels en grote internationale ketens. Tegelijkertijd maken de hoge woningprijzen Amsterdam onbetaalbaar voor ... Read more

$26.13 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Een meeslepend portret van Amsterdam aan het begin van de 21ste eeuw. De bevolking groeit snel, het aantal toeristen neemt toe en de stad raakt in de greep van vastgoedhandelaren en beleggers uit binnen- en buitenland. In de binnenstad worden bakkers en boekhandels vervangen door ijswinkels en grote internationale ketens. Tegelijkertijd maken de hoge woningprijzen Amsterdam onbetaalbaar voor
... Read more
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

by Leslie Kern ...

Narrated by Parmida Vand ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver,
... Read more
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The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 44 min

When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, through a one- to three-mile passage too low to stand up in. He watched the back ... Read more

$16.95 USD

When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, through a one- to three-mile passage too low to stand up in. He watched the back
... Read more
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The Exploits of Sir Ralph Stanza

A BBC Radio Comedy Collection

by James Quinn ...

Narrated by James Quinn, Chris Jack, Theo Ant Smith, Neil Bell, Lorraine Cheshire, Jack Deam, James Scales, Mark Chatterton, Carol Ann Duffy, Full Cast0 ...

Unabridged

3 hours 39 min

Two sitcom gems from the early 2000s featuring the achingly hip poet Sir Ralph Stanza, written by and starring James QuinnSir Ralph Stanza, a hip London poet, is determined to communicate the people's hopes and fears through his verse. Whether they like it or not…Sir Ralph Stanza’s Letter from Salford follows the exploits of the distinguished-but-hip London poet Sir Ralph Stanza as he settles into ... Read more

$19.11 USD

Two sitcom gems from the early 2000s featuring the achingly hip poet Sir Ralph Stanza, written by and starring James QuinnSir Ralph Stanza, a hip London poet, is determined to communicate the people's hopes and fears through his verse. Whether they like it or not…Sir Ralph Stanza’s Letter from Salford follows the exploits of the distinguished-but-hip London poet Sir Ralph Stanza as he settles into
... Read more

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